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Education | Sybille Bedford | The idea had been that Jack and Suzan Robbins should select a boarding school for Sibylle and have her to stay for the holidays. Instead, with the money provided by her family and trustees, they... |
Education | Marjorie Bowen | She also started drawing, despite having no money for paints or canvases, and gained permission to copy at the National Gallery
and the British Museum
. There, she learned the techniques of oil painting and... |
Education | Anita Brookner | AB
was educated at James Allen's Girls' School
in Dulwich, South London. She embarked on a general BA at King's College, London
but found the course boring. At the suggestion of a lunchtime lecturer... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Brigid Brophy | BB
, on her twenty-fifth birthday, married art historian Michael Levey
, who later became Director of the National Gallery
and who was knighted in 1981. Brophy, Brigid. “Afterword”. The King of a Rainy Country, Virago. 280 Murdoch, Iris. Living on Paper. Editors Horner, Avril and Ann Rowe, Chatto and Windus. 616 |
Friends, Associates | Maria Callcott | In Rome they got to know the painter Charles Eastlake
, and through him other artists, such as John Jackson
and J. W. M. Turner
. MC
's developing interest in the pre-Renaissance art of... |
Occupation | Lady Colin Campbell | During the 1870s the future LCC
developed a passion for art. She went on to become a close associate of some of the most famous artists of the day. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Publishing | U. A. Fanthorpe | The cover features Uccello
's well-known painting St George and the Dragon, in the National Gallery
, subject of Not My Best Side, the poem which remains UAF
's single best-known work. Cover-paintings... |
Textual Production | Michael Field | Since 1890 Katharine Harris Bradley and Edith Cooper had been preparing to write a collection of poems responding to European art by touring several important galleries (including, besides the National Gallery
in London, the Louvre |
Textual Production | Germaine Greer | GG
has published a good deal in her scholarly field of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century women's writing. Her anthology (with Susan Hastings
, Jeslyn Medoff
and Melinda Sansone
), Kissing the Rod, has played an... |
Family and Intimate relationships | Augusta Gregory | |
Family and Intimate relationships | Nina Hamnett | At twenty-two, NH
felt it was time she experienced sex. She selected a most beautiful creature with long green eyes and hands like the Angel in the National Gallery
by Filippino Lippi
, and with... |
Education | John Oliver Hobbes | She then attended a number of schools: a boarding establishment at Newbury in Berkshire between 1876 and 1877 (run by the Misses Godwin), a school in Paris from 1880 to 1881 (she was fluent in... |
Reception | Beatrix Potter | She sometimes wrote of her own drawing and painting as an obsession: Why cannot one be content to look at it? I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result. But also, watching and... |
Friends, Associates | Adelaide Procter | Kemble describes AP
in this setting as looking already like a poet, with a preternaturally thoughtful, mournful expression for a little child. Kemble, Fanny. Records of a Girlhood. Henry Holt. 499 |
Employer | Kathleen Raine | KR
was Andrew Mellon Lecturer at the National Gallery
of Art, Washington, DC. Contemporary Authors: New Revision Series. Gale Research. 46: 315 |
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